David Milano wasn’t the first person offered the assistant superintendent job at the town of Cheshire Wastewater Treatment Plant.
“The job was offered to people before me, and they turned it down based on what the plant looked like,” says Milano. What it looked like when Milano came on board on April 1, 2022, was a plant in disrepair.It had been under a Notice of Violation from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection since late December 2020. Effluent TSS was running in the neighborhood of 200 mg/L. Phosphorus discharges exceeded the permit limit of 4.06 pounds per day (annual
